Currane Godbeams

I am just back from Achill Island where I went this afternoon with Patricia. I had to photograph some farm buildings for a project I am involved in. But having finished the "work" we took a small picnic down to the shoe at Currane and I tried to get a picture of Clare Island with rocks in the foreground. After a while it got too cold for Trish and she headed back to the car, and I put the camera on a tripod and tried to time my exposures to coincide with the waves in the water. I seemed to have to wait ages between suitable waves, and as the tide was going out they became less and less frequent . It was very cloudy with no direct sunlight, the cloud was thick and low, but it suited the slow water pictures. I had tried various positions with the camera, and had just moved to a different spot and set the camera to capture a particular swirl of water that happened occasionally, when I became aware of a sudden brightening behind me, so I looked up, and when i saw this scene I was forced to give up my carefully chosen composition, and take the camera off the tripod to capture this scene before the clouds closed in again, as they did just a few seconds later.